79: DIG IN: Should I Feel Guilty For Moving Away From My Parents?
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Persephonica
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Hannah asks a question about how to manage the guilt of moving away from parents, especially as they get older. Katrina wants to know all about any tall tales that friends and family have convinced us are true over the years. Amanda has a hilarious story about a misidentified ‘toy’ that ended up causing a stir in the local charity shop. Plus, we share your brilliant robot lawnmower name suggestions… Keep ‘em coming!
The organisation that Jo mentions which helps siblings of those with additional needs is called Sibs - you can find out more about their work here: https://www.sibs.org.uk/
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CREDITS
Exec Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan
Producer: Samantha Psyk
Assistant Producer: Eve Jones
Technical Producer: Danny Pape
Video Editors: Cameron Laird and Jack Whiteside
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Digit, Disco Steve has for about three decades now been saying that he's 19 years old. |
| 0:07.1 | Whenever anybody says, how old are you? He's always like, yeah, I'm 19, I'm 19. |
| 0:10.8 | 19 forever. The thing you want more than anything in the world is for your children to be happy. Yeah. |
| 0:15.9 | So there is this selfless thing inside you that you just go, it's fine. |
| 0:20.1 | Sometimes I've heard stories back to me thinking, how to me, that's my story and that's been told to me, well, that never happened. I found what they thought was a dog toy, I put it in the window of the shop. You imagine people going past going, what the dickens is that? All of that right after this. |
| 0:46.9 | This episode of Digit is sponsored by the Woodland Trust. |
| 0:54.8 | The Woodland Trust lets you dedicate a tree, a bench, even a whole area of woodland in someone's name. |
| 0:59.5 | So imagine for yourselves whether you would have a tree dedicated for your loved one or a bench in a woodland where you can just go and you can remember the person that you love that you've |
| 1:04.7 | lost. It's just a wonderful idea. Dedications start from a suggested donation of £20 for a |
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| 1:11.6 | And you can dedicate anything from trees to quarter acres woodland, |
| 1:16.6 | even personalised benches and mark posts. |
| 1:19.8 | And the lovely bit is you or your loved one will receive a special dedication pack. |
| 1:24.3 | There's a personalised certificate, a map of the woodland that you've chosen, |
| 1:27.4 | and also some information about the wood itself. Plus map of the woodland that you've chosen, and also |
| 1:28.1 | some information about the wood itself. Plus all of the Woodland Trust's sites are free to visit, |
| 1:32.7 | so you can go and see it any time. It really is a gift that keeps growing and every |
| 1:37.2 | dedication directly supports the Woodland Trust's vital work, protecting and restoring woods |
| 1:42.3 | across the UK. So if woods are your happy place or theirs, this is just a beautiful way to celebrate a birthday, |
| 1:49.4 | a wedding, anniversary, anything really. |
| 1:51.7 | Visit woodlandtrust.org.ukuk slash dig it to start your dedication. |
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